So... it's holiday but i'm bored to death and that's why i'm writing a new blog that soon after the last one..
The only things i can do have to do with school and are not the good options hahaha
Here's the following of the "How to treat with Dutch"-course. Good luck!!! ;)
11) Dutch do not like to spend money, they prefer to cut off an ear. This makes a Dutch your friend for life if you give him something for free. And it might explain the great success of McDonald's in Holland. The story that copper-wire was invented by two Dutch who were fighting for a cent, is totally true.
12) Holland is small. The story goes that it's that small that they put it inside when it's raining. This is not true, but more because it rains 365 days a year in Holland. And that explains the wooden-shoes: they are floating. Yesyes, Holland is small and Dutch are very proud of that. They will take every chance to tell you that Holland has reached for such great things although it's so small. A good answer for this is referring to a history filled with cruelty in colonies. That brings us to point 13.
13) If you want to insult a Dutch, and sooner or later you'll want that, you can tell him that you don't think he's a pacifist. And now start immediately running for your life. He won't stop telling you he's the most peaceful person in the world until your guts are on the street. As said before, referring to a history filled with cruelty in colonies like in Surinam and Indonesia will make that same Dutch change into a crying child that begs for forgiving.
14) Dutch have the name of being tolerant. Rubbish. They just make too much money with selling soft- and harddrugs and Maleisian women, for letting that great opportunity for making profit pass by.
15) The main way of transport in Holland is the bike. Feel free to take every bike of which you can crack the lock. However, don't expect your bike to be at the same place as you put it 3 minutes ago. The hunting-season of bikes is opened 365 days a year. Good luck!
16) With every meal with bread in Holland you will find a mean-looking knife with a big groove in it. This is called a "kaasschaaf" (cheeseslicer) and is meant to cut off very thin slices of the cheese (Yes, it is a Dutch invention). Never cut the cheese with a normal knife, the Dutch will think you are very foolish. Another Dutch invention for eating is the "flessenlikker" (bottle scraper). Be aware! Never use it for scratching your back! It was made for getting the last small traces out of a bottle of sauce or something else. A Dutch uses every millimeter of a product he bought. He payed for it, then he will eat it too.
17) Dutch are used to drown chips in liters of mayonnaise and putting it in paperbags. This is called "patatje met" (chips with). One of these bags is able to give you an immortal life (because it's so fat!). They are only not sure if this life is worth living it. Anyway, there are really seen foreigners that seemed to like it.
18) Holland has a unique service for tourists. At the moment they are crossing the border they are welcomed by young men in fast cars. They have the wish to bring the tourists to the many interesting attractions Holland has. One way or another, the tourists always end up in a coffeshop or other drugsbuilding (see point 19)
19) There is a very fast way of making yourself foolish in Holland. Walk into a coffeeshop and ask for a cappuccino with a cookie. Coffeeshops, remember this, do not sell coffee. But you can find there lots of drugs for low prices. Because of an unknown reason, coffeeshops are very popular between the tourists.
20) A Frisian is a kind of Dutch living in the north of the country with a whole province for himself. He loves frozen water, Beerenburg (a kind of euthanasia with alcohol) and continiously telling that the other Dutch are just not-Frisians. The other Dutch are seeing this attitude with the eyes like parents to a rebellious child.
Next time until 30!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from a very bored Marloes
maandag 27 april 2009
zondag 26 april 2009
How to treat with Dutch 1
This blog is a good one for everybody who is having the plan to come to Holland.
I found it at Internet and it's telling some very funny things about Holland, seeing from the eyes of a foreigner.
I translated it into English, hoping it will prepare you a bit ;)
And remember, i'm not like that, it's about some standard-Dutch or something, you are doing very good hahahaha because i like you!! Most of it doesn't really matter to the most Dutch i think, or i hope, but it's very funny to read for getting to know that weird, small country where, one way or another, are living 16 million people!
1) Most foreigners (foreigners in this blog means people who are from other countries than Holland) call everything that is from Holland Dutch. Don't do that. Dutch reminds the people to "Duits" (= German) what is used for Germans and other things they hate.
2) When you are a foreigner, never try to speak Dutch. You won't only get a huge headache of it, the Dutch won't even understand you. Foreigners have to speak English or gibberish. In the last case they are an easy goal for pickpockets, because they are not able to go to the police.
3) Never try to eat liqourice. It is a candy that only Dutch can eat. You can recognise it by the colour: black. The taste is a mix of earwax and ink. Dutch are really mad of it and eat kilos a person every year. There is a plot between all the people to look at the faces of foreigners who got to believe you can eat it.
4) Don't buy wooden shoes. They will look ridiculous to you. And that is the reason they try to sell it to you. A Dutch himself would never want to be found dead in those things (he actually would never want to be found dead...)
5) Don't make wholes in the dikes. The people don't like that at all, and in the worst case you end up being thrown dead by wooden shoes. But feel free to put your finger in them, when you just need to do that. In that worst case you only get a lot of laughters from the natives.
6) A Dutch is always right, and he knows that. When you are remembering this, it's very easy to treat with the most Dutch. Whenever you get a fight with a Dutch, just tell him that he's totally right and that you now see you're not right. Now he will totally become crazy: Because you are a forgeigner, you can't be right. You agree with him. That's why he can't be right. Impossible! He's Dutch. But... Then... He... Now it's time to watch from a small distance how he tries to strangle himself with a tulip.
7) Mills are inevitable.
8) You don't need to act like you are interested in tulips, mills, wooden shoes or cheese. Every Dutch knows you've come for the drugs or the red-light-districts. Both are there in huge quantities and easy to find. Just ask every Dutch older than 6.
9) Always avoid footballfans. Football in Holland is just an excuse for hitting every other's brains, inclusive yours. Most of the times it happens when one's team has lost, or had the same score as the other team, or when it has won. It's very foolish to stand with a policeman, during these situations (see point 10). And remember never to mention the final or 1974 nearby a Dutch. He will immediately give you a long story about how good the Dutch team was that match and how unbelievebly good...... blablabla
10) Policemen in Holland are most of the times used to throw things to. If you feel like hitting someone, take a policeman. Not a single Dutch will pay attention when you hit a policeman or kick him in his nuts. Policemen represent authority and not a single Dutch recognizes a higher authority than himself. It will strike on you that most of the policemen are foreigners who they attracted in this job.
Next time point 11 to 20!!!
xxxxxxx Marloes <3
I found it at Internet and it's telling some very funny things about Holland, seeing from the eyes of a foreigner.
I translated it into English, hoping it will prepare you a bit ;)
And remember, i'm not like that, it's about some standard-Dutch or something, you are doing very good hahahaha because i like you!! Most of it doesn't really matter to the most Dutch i think, or i hope, but it's very funny to read for getting to know that weird, small country where, one way or another, are living 16 million people!
1) Most foreigners (foreigners in this blog means people who are from other countries than Holland) call everything that is from Holland Dutch. Don't do that. Dutch reminds the people to "Duits" (= German) what is used for Germans and other things they hate.
2) When you are a foreigner, never try to speak Dutch. You won't only get a huge headache of it, the Dutch won't even understand you. Foreigners have to speak English or gibberish. In the last case they are an easy goal for pickpockets, because they are not able to go to the police.
3) Never try to eat liqourice. It is a candy that only Dutch can eat. You can recognise it by the colour: black. The taste is a mix of earwax and ink. Dutch are really mad of it and eat kilos a person every year. There is a plot between all the people to look at the faces of foreigners who got to believe you can eat it.
4) Don't buy wooden shoes. They will look ridiculous to you. And that is the reason they try to sell it to you. A Dutch himself would never want to be found dead in those things (he actually would never want to be found dead...)
5) Don't make wholes in the dikes. The people don't like that at all, and in the worst case you end up being thrown dead by wooden shoes. But feel free to put your finger in them, when you just need to do that. In that worst case you only get a lot of laughters from the natives.
6) A Dutch is always right, and he knows that. When you are remembering this, it's very easy to treat with the most Dutch. Whenever you get a fight with a Dutch, just tell him that he's totally right and that you now see you're not right. Now he will totally become crazy: Because you are a forgeigner, you can't be right. You agree with him. That's why he can't be right. Impossible! He's Dutch. But... Then... He... Now it's time to watch from a small distance how he tries to strangle himself with a tulip.
7) Mills are inevitable.
8) You don't need to act like you are interested in tulips, mills, wooden shoes or cheese. Every Dutch knows you've come for the drugs or the red-light-districts. Both are there in huge quantities and easy to find. Just ask every Dutch older than 6.
9) Always avoid footballfans. Football in Holland is just an excuse for hitting every other's brains, inclusive yours. Most of the times it happens when one's team has lost, or had the same score as the other team, or when it has won. It's very foolish to stand with a policeman, during these situations (see point 10). And remember never to mention the final or 1974 nearby a Dutch. He will immediately give you a long story about how good the Dutch team was that match and how unbelievebly good...... blablabla
10) Policemen in Holland are most of the times used to throw things to. If you feel like hitting someone, take a policeman. Not a single Dutch will pay attention when you hit a policeman or kick him in his nuts. Policemen represent authority and not a single Dutch recognizes a higher authority than himself. It will strike on you that most of the policemen are foreigners who they attracted in this job.
Next time point 11 to 20!!!
xxxxxxx Marloes <3
vrijdag 24 april 2009
Brother & Sister Weekend!
this weekend is going to be a special weekend...
I don't really think it's so exciting, but my mother sees it as "a new step" and i think my brother is a little bit nervous too.
My parents have this weekend a weekend with old friends, they know each other from secundary school (so since they had my age!!) and there are also 2 of my dad's brothers and their wives. They have that weekend every year, and without children...
So when we were really young we slept at an uncle and aunt. That was so much fun, but this year my brother and i stay together at home.
I don't know what we are going to do tonight, and tomorrow i have scouting and working, but sunday we are going to the zoo :D
It's such a long time i've been to the zoo.. I've always liked it there, but i really think it's more than 6 years ago that i've been there the last time.
The zoo...
The part of Holland where you can see "wild" animals. Hahaha, last time i had a conversation with Tommy about wild animals and he told that he had seen some mooses, just right in nature. After i said something like "How different can it be??", he asked how many times i saw wild animals. And i answered "Well, i have just seen them today. Sheep, cows.." But i had to say something after that, because i thought he might think that the sheep and cows were wild (you never know with the culture differences..). I can tell you:
Sheep and cows in Holland are NOT wild.
They are from a farmer, but you can see them in their normal habitat :D
The grass hihi
So that's why to go to the zoo: you never see animals otherwise. Of course i don't believe that there are also elephants walking in Sweden, but the only wild animals in Holland are, except for musquitos and bees and so on, squirrels, swines, deer and some small animals like hedgehogs and birds hahahaha.
I guess we will have a great day, even more because they are predicting more good weather!
Be careful at nature!! xxxx Marloes
P.S. This is funny:
Rozen verwelken, schepen vergaan.... dus koop geen bloemen en vlieg voortaan!
Roses are withering, ships are sinking..... so don't buy flowers and fly from now on!
(with that first phrase the love poems begin (like roses are withering, ships are sinking, but my love for you will forever be you understand?).. in dutch it's riming)
I don't really think it's so exciting, but my mother sees it as "a new step" and i think my brother is a little bit nervous too.
My parents have this weekend a weekend with old friends, they know each other from secundary school (so since they had my age!!) and there are also 2 of my dad's brothers and their wives. They have that weekend every year, and without children...
So when we were really young we slept at an uncle and aunt. That was so much fun, but this year my brother and i stay together at home.
I don't know what we are going to do tonight, and tomorrow i have scouting and working, but sunday we are going to the zoo :D
It's such a long time i've been to the zoo.. I've always liked it there, but i really think it's more than 6 years ago that i've been there the last time.
The zoo...
The part of Holland where you can see "wild" animals. Hahaha, last time i had a conversation with Tommy about wild animals and he told that he had seen some mooses, just right in nature. After i said something like "How different can it be??", he asked how many times i saw wild animals. And i answered "Well, i have just seen them today. Sheep, cows.." But i had to say something after that, because i thought he might think that the sheep and cows were wild (you never know with the culture differences..). I can tell you:
Sheep and cows in Holland are NOT wild.
They are from a farmer, but you can see them in their normal habitat :D
The grass hihi
So that's why to go to the zoo: you never see animals otherwise. Of course i don't believe that there are also elephants walking in Sweden, but the only wild animals in Holland are, except for musquitos and bees and so on, squirrels, swines, deer and some small animals like hedgehogs and birds hahahaha.
I guess we will have a great day, even more because they are predicting more good weather!
Be careful at nature!! xxxx Marloes
P.S. This is funny:
Rozen verwelken, schepen vergaan.... dus koop geen bloemen en vlieg voortaan!
Roses are withering, ships are sinking..... so don't buy flowers and fly from now on!
(with that first phrase the love poems begin (like roses are withering, ships are sinking, but my love for you will forever be you understand?).. in dutch it's riming)
donderdag 23 april 2009
The things i want for my birthday
The 3rd of May will be my 16th birthday :D:D
And... as always people are asking me what i want to have..
But i don't have an answer!!! I don't know what they can give me..
Although there are some things... the only things is that they can't give me that!! Or of some they can, but it's far too expensive, or not something to give for a birthday.. A way to being an adult, so my wishes are more grown-up too, is that a problem??
What do i want for my 16th birthday??
- I want two men. No, not in that way... I want the men, that me and my friends call CP and HB (that's shorter and in HB's case something we know how to say), jumping out of a birthday cake for me.... :D
- I want two girls. Also not in that way... Having them here would be such a lot bigger present than the men. And if they would like to jump out of a cake, DO THAT!!!! (This was a silent hint :) )
- I want peace in the world. And not even peace... No, i want equality between men and women, food enough everywhere, bright drinking water, money for everybody, no climate problems any more, no racism, no discrimination, no fighting, no killing, no diseases, medicines... All together, i want it to be as people describe heaven haha
- I want holiday. And that's something i have already then hihi, and it's over then too... My birthday is the last sunday of the holiday, and luckily we have two days after that (because two kind of national days for which we normally aren't free but this year we are (4 may, remembering the dutch soldiers fallen in wars, 5 may celebrating freedom (originally all because of WWII)))
- I want understanding... Understanding between people in the world, but i also want it just at home.. I want my parens stop talking about the way i say things and the way they see things that i don't mean. They only see it when my brother and i are having a discussion about our destination for summer, but they don't see that i immediately stopped calling Sweden or Norway as countries for a summerholiday. They don't see my enthusiasm about all countries they called, except for Finland and Italy (what i said that i didn't prefer them as my holiday (reason 1: the languages)), they only see me "pushing" for my own things. And that is just NOT true!! Of course i wanted to Irún to visit the Spanish, but my brother was sure he didn't want Spain, so i stopped. And now we are going to Spain, the plan is to drive THROUGH that city, and NOT to stop there!!! That's like driving to Stockholm and skipping Gullringen... Like Bøkko who looses from a stupid dutch in the last 10 meters of the race... Like a 5.4 at your list of notes because of which you are not allowed to go to the next year... (And a bit like going to Italy when you're learning French and Spanish, the only thing for me that is against Italy haha)
That's what i want for my birthday...
10 Nights sleeping (as the dutch children are counting) and we will see what comes true....
Birthdays are healthy, the more you have, the older you will be!! Marloes <3
And... as always people are asking me what i want to have..
But i don't have an answer!!! I don't know what they can give me..
Although there are some things... the only things is that they can't give me that!! Or of some they can, but it's far too expensive, or not something to give for a birthday.. A way to being an adult, so my wishes are more grown-up too, is that a problem??
What do i want for my 16th birthday??
- I want two men. No, not in that way... I want the men, that me and my friends call CP and HB (that's shorter and in HB's case something we know how to say), jumping out of a birthday cake for me.... :D
- I want two girls. Also not in that way... Having them here would be such a lot bigger present than the men. And if they would like to jump out of a cake, DO THAT!!!! (This was a silent hint :) )
- I want peace in the world. And not even peace... No, i want equality between men and women, food enough everywhere, bright drinking water, money for everybody, no climate problems any more, no racism, no discrimination, no fighting, no killing, no diseases, medicines... All together, i want it to be as people describe heaven haha
- I want holiday. And that's something i have already then hihi, and it's over then too... My birthday is the last sunday of the holiday, and luckily we have two days after that (because two kind of national days for which we normally aren't free but this year we are (4 may, remembering the dutch soldiers fallen in wars, 5 may celebrating freedom (originally all because of WWII)))
- I want understanding... Understanding between people in the world, but i also want it just at home.. I want my parens stop talking about the way i say things and the way they see things that i don't mean. They only see it when my brother and i are having a discussion about our destination for summer, but they don't see that i immediately stopped calling Sweden or Norway as countries for a summerholiday. They don't see my enthusiasm about all countries they called, except for Finland and Italy (what i said that i didn't prefer them as my holiday (reason 1: the languages)), they only see me "pushing" for my own things. And that is just NOT true!! Of course i wanted to Irún to visit the Spanish, but my brother was sure he didn't want Spain, so i stopped. And now we are going to Spain, the plan is to drive THROUGH that city, and NOT to stop there!!! That's like driving to Stockholm and skipping Gullringen... Like Bøkko who looses from a stupid dutch in the last 10 meters of the race... Like a 5.4 at your list of notes because of which you are not allowed to go to the next year... (And a bit like going to Italy when you're learning French and Spanish, the only thing for me that is against Italy haha)
That's what i want for my birthday...
10 Nights sleeping (as the dutch children are counting) and we will see what comes true....
Birthdays are healthy, the more you have, the older you will be!! Marloes <3
dinsdag 21 april 2009
BZN
this blog's name is "Blog zonder naam" which means "Blog without name"..
Why?? Just because i thought that was funny hahaha
Which things make you laughing??
That depends on the time of the day you are...
I experienced that when you are very tired, you start talking about such stupid things.. and they are all funny!!
Examples:
One night, a night with my friends, we were laying in our "beds" and two had already fallen in sleep. And what were Eva, Katja and me talking about?? Sea cucumbers, mummies, saunas and Paul de Leeuw (a man we had seen on tv that evening).. And it was a long time ago that we had so much fun.. Who would ever eat sea cucumbers?? Lol!! It was 5 o'clock in the morning...
In the bus from Belgium to Holland when we came back from Spain, Eva and i were sitting together and we were so tired from the whole week and so we discussed about whether trolls and gnomes existed or not... People in Iceland think so.. Are they right or are they crazy?? Eva thought the last one, i didn't know.. I've never seen one, and i don't think they would like to live here, but nobody has proved they don't exist. They could always be right, couldn't they?? It sounds weird, but you never know...
And so on and so on...
In my agenda, i have a new thing.. The week we are in now, has a card in it hahaha. It's a card from Norway and i keep reading it over and over again. Hihihi and some have read it too:
* "Is her name Lola??" - No.. it's Ida... (Sanne)
* "Ohhhh so cute!!!!" - Yes! I know! (Sanne)
* "Kos og klem??!!" - Hihihi (Eva)
* "That's so kind!!" - :D (Katja)
* "I don't see any trolls, do you??!! - Yes.. don't you see them?? (Eva, in the geography lesson)
* "Wow.. it's so beautiful!" - Haha, yes... (i don't remember who said that)
* "Norge, kos, og, klem... right..." - I know what it means :D (don't remember that one either)
* "Did your Swedish friend send that to you?" - thinking "yes.. duh!"
soooooo they like the card here!! Like they all like mister Carl Philip hahaha
So now i'm going to learn English (such a lot of words... and it's só boring!!)
And tonight i have to see the news, because Swedish king and queen are in the country :)
(i only wished they brought their son for my birthday hahahaha)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the street, Marloes
Why?? Just because i thought that was funny hahaha
Which things make you laughing??
That depends on the time of the day you are...
I experienced that when you are very tired, you start talking about such stupid things.. and they are all funny!!
Examples:
One night, a night with my friends, we were laying in our "beds" and two had already fallen in sleep. And what were Eva, Katja and me talking about?? Sea cucumbers, mummies, saunas and Paul de Leeuw (a man we had seen on tv that evening).. And it was a long time ago that we had so much fun.. Who would ever eat sea cucumbers?? Lol!! It was 5 o'clock in the morning...
In the bus from Belgium to Holland when we came back from Spain, Eva and i were sitting together and we were so tired from the whole week and so we discussed about whether trolls and gnomes existed or not... People in Iceland think so.. Are they right or are they crazy?? Eva thought the last one, i didn't know.. I've never seen one, and i don't think they would like to live here, but nobody has proved they don't exist. They could always be right, couldn't they?? It sounds weird, but you never know...
And so on and so on...
In my agenda, i have a new thing.. The week we are in now, has a card in it hahaha. It's a card from Norway and i keep reading it over and over again. Hihihi and some have read it too:
* "Is her name Lola??" - No.. it's Ida... (Sanne)
* "Ohhhh so cute!!!!" - Yes! I know! (Sanne)
* "Kos og klem??!!" - Hihihi (Eva)
* "That's so kind!!" - :D (Katja)
* "I don't see any trolls, do you??!! - Yes.. don't you see them?? (Eva, in the geography lesson)
* "Wow.. it's so beautiful!" - Haha, yes... (i don't remember who said that)
* "Norge, kos, og, klem... right..." - I know what it means :D (don't remember that one either)
* "Did your Swedish friend send that to you?" - thinking "yes.. duh!"
soooooo they like the card here!! Like they all like mister Carl Philip hahaha
So now i'm going to learn English (such a lot of words... and it's só boring!!)
And tonight i have to see the news, because Swedish king and queen are in the country :)
(i only wished they brought their son for my birthday hahahaha)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the street, Marloes
vrijdag 17 april 2009
Future is now!
Yes, i started my blog with a title that was also the theme of a World Jamboree. And it was the one that was in Holland in 1995. I really like that theme, because it's true.. What's happening now is important for in the future. And so are we, the youth, because we are the next leaders of the countries that will have to build peace and to care about our parents..
i've just read Ida's blog and i really must say she's right...
It's so nice to travel, but most of the times it only stays with dreaming.
In my case not about Spain, but so many others..
and sometimes even Spain and France, like right now hahaha
I wished future came something faster.
I would like to have a timemachine, for just travelling to nice times in the past or to the future for being so independent and make my dreams come true :)
Travelling in the past...
to the time i was able to hug my Grandad
to the WSJ2007
to the time i was in Sweden
to the time in my old house, i note that i'm forgetting what it looked like from inside!! And although i now live on the other side of the street i would like to see it again how it was when i was the little Marloes. The blond girl who really thought Switzerland was next to Sweden...
to the time that life was so easy and you were so little that you couldn't really see all the bad things in the world
to the time that Sinterklaas really existed
But my age now has positive things too..
I'm having great and real friends
I'm discovering the world, by learning at school but also by realizing how big it is and how different things, cultures, and countries can be. "Near" (like Sweden) and far away (like Africa).
I'm realizing the world i live in and it's only becoming bigger and bigger.. Sweden is no longer the neighbour of Switzerland and in Luxembourg aren't all people rich (because they could buy luxe things, because they were living in LUXEmbourg)
I feel like i'm living and i'm finding out what it is like to be human and to live in this world, with all responsibilities and nice things
And most of all i'm discovering myself. I feel like i'm becoming the woman i will be for the rest of my life. I'm forming my opinions about things and i'm taught how to be a good and responsible citizen of the world (like i see it.. not a good citizen of only Holland). And with discovering your life and opinions are the negative things. For example that not everybody shares your opinion. In small things, you don't all think the same boy is hot, and in big things, about people with other cultures, traditions and religions who live in Holland. It's all part of it!
But the most beautiful thing is that i have found my real friends. The ones that respect me in all.. I didn't believe my parents last year that friendships from that moment would go over and that you would find the ones for the rest of your life in later times, in the second part of secondary school, in which i'm now. I didn't believe it, my class was too nice and how could i ever lose Laura who was my best friend??
But they were right.. At the end of that year i found better friends and, really, i lost Laura. She's not more than somebody i know well and with whom i can talk sometimes. I still can talk better with her than with some other people, but a real friend she isn't any more.
My class with which i have Dutch, English, gymnastics and societystudies (V4C) IS nicer than the other one (VG3A) and i have my real friends...
And positive things of the future, i'm not going to mention because you will know them yourself.. Freedom, responsibility, money, independence... they all have a black side too. And they are teaching us NOW how to use it, by giving us more and more and by letting you discover your way of thinking and being. And of course we will discover the bad things of them, and we are already doing that sometimes, but the most important thing for then is that you will have those friends you're making now and that you will have a nice time to look back at.
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends, <3 Marloes
i've just read Ida's blog and i really must say she's right...
It's so nice to travel, but most of the times it only stays with dreaming.
In my case not about Spain, but so many others..
and sometimes even Spain and France, like right now hahaha
I wished future came something faster.
I would like to have a timemachine, for just travelling to nice times in the past or to the future for being so independent and make my dreams come true :)
Travelling in the past...
to the time i was able to hug my Grandad
to the WSJ2007
to the time i was in Sweden
to the time in my old house, i note that i'm forgetting what it looked like from inside!! And although i now live on the other side of the street i would like to see it again how it was when i was the little Marloes. The blond girl who really thought Switzerland was next to Sweden...
to the time that life was so easy and you were so little that you couldn't really see all the bad things in the world
to the time that Sinterklaas really existed
But my age now has positive things too..
I'm having great and real friends
I'm discovering the world, by learning at school but also by realizing how big it is and how different things, cultures, and countries can be. "Near" (like Sweden) and far away (like Africa).
I'm realizing the world i live in and it's only becoming bigger and bigger.. Sweden is no longer the neighbour of Switzerland and in Luxembourg aren't all people rich (because they could buy luxe things, because they were living in LUXEmbourg)
I feel like i'm living and i'm finding out what it is like to be human and to live in this world, with all responsibilities and nice things
And most of all i'm discovering myself. I feel like i'm becoming the woman i will be for the rest of my life. I'm forming my opinions about things and i'm taught how to be a good and responsible citizen of the world (like i see it.. not a good citizen of only Holland). And with discovering your life and opinions are the negative things. For example that not everybody shares your opinion. In small things, you don't all think the same boy is hot, and in big things, about people with other cultures, traditions and religions who live in Holland. It's all part of it!
But the most beautiful thing is that i have found my real friends. The ones that respect me in all.. I didn't believe my parents last year that friendships from that moment would go over and that you would find the ones for the rest of your life in later times, in the second part of secondary school, in which i'm now. I didn't believe it, my class was too nice and how could i ever lose Laura who was my best friend??
But they were right.. At the end of that year i found better friends and, really, i lost Laura. She's not more than somebody i know well and with whom i can talk sometimes. I still can talk better with her than with some other people, but a real friend she isn't any more.
My class with which i have Dutch, English, gymnastics and societystudies (V4C) IS nicer than the other one (VG3A) and i have my real friends...
And positive things of the future, i'm not going to mention because you will know them yourself.. Freedom, responsibility, money, independence... they all have a black side too. And they are teaching us NOW how to use it, by giving us more and more and by letting you discover your way of thinking and being. And of course we will discover the bad things of them, and we are already doing that sometimes, but the most important thing for then is that you will have those friends you're making now and that you will have a nice time to look back at.
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends, <3 Marloes
woensdag 15 april 2009
Vive la vie et vive la France!
So today was my lucky day of the year...
First of all i wasn't so happy with today..
I had to get a vaccination and i'm not so keen on needles and i knew from last time ( a month ago ) that my arm would really hurt. And then i had gymnastics!!!!
So Eva and i were thinking we were really poor.
How could this day have turned into such a nice day??
It started good.. I could sleep long because of that vaccination. It would have no sense to go to the first two hours because i had to cycle a lot. So i stayed in bed until 8.15 and i missed German and a Spanish test :)
Eva and i went to the sportshall for the vaccination which hurted more than last time. But the weather was great!!! We cycled without our jackets, like we can since a couple of days, and now it's almost 24 degrees!!!
We waited long and talked a lot with each other and another friend that had to get the vaccination too, Aranka. We waited very long to miss as much as possible of gymnastics. When we finally arrived they were ready with running, so that was what we missed :D:D
Softball... better than hockey or football what we could also choose.
Surprising moment: i hit the ball!!! Unfortunately it was caught but with my second turn i made a HOMERUN!! Really, you should have seen that!! I have to admit that it was more because of the others than of me, but it was a homerun!!!
Then next... i got to hear that my English test for tomorrow goes to next week, and my 8th hour Dutch was cancelled. All good..
But the nicest thing hasn't come yet...
I SUCCEEDED FOR MY FRENCH EXAM!!
It's so fast to hear it, because it went to French people and they are not most serious with time.. but they really changed their minds i think!
Oh my God, i'm so happy!! When i have my degree i can study at a French university without doing a test for getting accepted :D
That's what made my day so good!!
Spring has come, everywhere are flowers, newborn animals and a sun.
I'm having the greatest friends in the world and i succeeded for my French exam!!
So.. i will finish this blog in French
Vive la vie et vive la France!! Marloes
First of all i wasn't so happy with today..
I had to get a vaccination and i'm not so keen on needles and i knew from last time ( a month ago ) that my arm would really hurt. And then i had gymnastics!!!!
So Eva and i were thinking we were really poor.
How could this day have turned into such a nice day??
It started good.. I could sleep long because of that vaccination. It would have no sense to go to the first two hours because i had to cycle a lot. So i stayed in bed until 8.15 and i missed German and a Spanish test :)
Eva and i went to the sportshall for the vaccination which hurted more than last time. But the weather was great!!! We cycled without our jackets, like we can since a couple of days, and now it's almost 24 degrees!!!
We waited long and talked a lot with each other and another friend that had to get the vaccination too, Aranka. We waited very long to miss as much as possible of gymnastics. When we finally arrived they were ready with running, so that was what we missed :D:D
Softball... better than hockey or football what we could also choose.
Surprising moment: i hit the ball!!! Unfortunately it was caught but with my second turn i made a HOMERUN!! Really, you should have seen that!! I have to admit that it was more because of the others than of me, but it was a homerun!!!
Then next... i got to hear that my English test for tomorrow goes to next week, and my 8th hour Dutch was cancelled. All good..
But the nicest thing hasn't come yet...
I SUCCEEDED FOR MY FRENCH EXAM!!
It's so fast to hear it, because it went to French people and they are not most serious with time.. but they really changed their minds i think!
Oh my God, i'm so happy!! When i have my degree i can study at a French university without doing a test for getting accepted :D
That's what made my day so good!!
Spring has come, everywhere are flowers, newborn animals and a sun.
I'm having the greatest friends in the world and i succeeded for my French exam!!
So.. i will finish this blog in French
Vive la vie et vive la France!! Marloes
vrijdag 10 april 2009
Easter vibes!
As everybody probably knows.. it's Easter!!
Of course Easter is sunday and monday, but thursday friday and saturday are part of it too.
I grew up with catholic belief and i know think i'm old enough to decide what i want to do with it.
I sing and that's why i have been in church thursday and i will be saturday. But isn't the friday one of the most important days of Easter??
Jesus can't be alive again if he hadn't died before.. And that's what happened at that friday. So i also went to church this evening. Not with my brother because he thinks one time is more than enough and not with my mother because she's feeling not so well and she has been laying on her bed the whole day. I went with my dad and i liked it!
Easter is more than just a man dying, like Christmas is more than a baby that was born 2000 years ago. Easter is the party of believing that good things will always win from the bad things. That life will win from death and that love will win from hate. And that's what i like about believing. Seeing it so positive, believing that one man died for all of us and knowing that it isn't over when we lose somebody. Believing in a life after death. I know a lot of people don't believe there's something like "heaven". I don't know yet... I refuse to believe that all people we lost are really gone. I refuse to believe that we will never see the people we loved so much again.
What do i believe? I don't know... But in a letter i wrote to my aunt before she was burnt, i wrote if she wanted to send all my love to my Grandad. I really believe, or i want to believe that we will see all those people again. That we will talk with them again and that everything is better there. That's what i hope at least for them. That "heaven" is even better than life here! That people aren't killing each other there, that people have the same rights there, that people aren't hungry and thirsty and that people live with love and peace there. Maybe it's a bit wishful thinking, but that's how i would like to see the world.
So maybe it's not wishful thinking... Maybe that's Easter's message. Who would think that Jesus would stand up again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Who would think Jesus was able to make people walking, hearing and seein again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Easter maybe wants to tell us that things of which we have always believed they weren't true or even impossible aren't impossible if you believe in it, believe in yourself and human-being.
Jesus was a wonderful man. He opened eyes of so many people. He was such a normal man, like we all are and i think he showed the most important thing for Christians. That most important thing should be important to all people and i think it actually IS important for a lot of people who don't believe. I'm talking about helping other people and threat them the way you want to be threated. Jesus has said, in Dutch:
Heb de ander lief zoals uzelf, want de ander is uzelf. Behandel anderen zoals je zelf behandeld zou willen worden.
Or in English: Love the other like yourself, because the other is yourself. Threat others like you would like to be threated yourself.
If everybody would do that, there would be no more fighting and no more killing. Human-rights would be respected everywhere and racism, discrimination and hate would no more exist.
That is for me the message of believing and christianity. Believing that the world would be better if you follow the way of Jesus, and act as much as you can like he did.
Making the world better and try to begin with that in your own small community.
A better world starts with yourself, Marloes
Of course Easter is sunday and monday, but thursday friday and saturday are part of it too.
I grew up with catholic belief and i know think i'm old enough to decide what i want to do with it.
I sing and that's why i have been in church thursday and i will be saturday. But isn't the friday one of the most important days of Easter??
Jesus can't be alive again if he hadn't died before.. And that's what happened at that friday. So i also went to church this evening. Not with my brother because he thinks one time is more than enough and not with my mother because she's feeling not so well and she has been laying on her bed the whole day. I went with my dad and i liked it!
Easter is more than just a man dying, like Christmas is more than a baby that was born 2000 years ago. Easter is the party of believing that good things will always win from the bad things. That life will win from death and that love will win from hate. And that's what i like about believing. Seeing it so positive, believing that one man died for all of us and knowing that it isn't over when we lose somebody. Believing in a life after death. I know a lot of people don't believe there's something like "heaven". I don't know yet... I refuse to believe that all people we lost are really gone. I refuse to believe that we will never see the people we loved so much again.
What do i believe? I don't know... But in a letter i wrote to my aunt before she was burnt, i wrote if she wanted to send all my love to my Grandad. I really believe, or i want to believe that we will see all those people again. That we will talk with them again and that everything is better there. That's what i hope at least for them. That "heaven" is even better than life here! That people aren't killing each other there, that people have the same rights there, that people aren't hungry and thirsty and that people live with love and peace there. Maybe it's a bit wishful thinking, but that's how i would like to see the world.
So maybe it's not wishful thinking... Maybe that's Easter's message. Who would think that Jesus would stand up again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Who would think Jesus was able to make people walking, hearing and seein again? Nobody, but he did, or so the story goes. Easter maybe wants to tell us that things of which we have always believed they weren't true or even impossible aren't impossible if you believe in it, believe in yourself and human-being.
Jesus was a wonderful man. He opened eyes of so many people. He was such a normal man, like we all are and i think he showed the most important thing for Christians. That most important thing should be important to all people and i think it actually IS important for a lot of people who don't believe. I'm talking about helping other people and threat them the way you want to be threated. Jesus has said, in Dutch:
Heb de ander lief zoals uzelf, want de ander is uzelf. Behandel anderen zoals je zelf behandeld zou willen worden.
Or in English: Love the other like yourself, because the other is yourself. Threat others like you would like to be threated yourself.
If everybody would do that, there would be no more fighting and no more killing. Human-rights would be respected everywhere and racism, discrimination and hate would no more exist.
That is for me the message of believing and christianity. Believing that the world would be better if you follow the way of Jesus, and act as much as you can like he did.
Making the world better and try to begin with that in your own small community.
A better world starts with yourself, Marloes
donderdag 9 april 2009
Everything has a beginning...
This is my first blog and i don't know so well what to write..
So i think i'm going to write about one of the most important things in my life: friendship.
Friends are very important to me and that's why i'm writing this blog in English, so ALL my friends can understand it.. :D
I'm going to write about my best friends. In my life i have like.. 6 parts i think. School, dancing, scouting, free time, out of school and sleeping.
For every part i have my best friend or friends :D
School
At school my best friends are Eva, Katja and Aranka.
Eva has been in my class since i came at secondary school, so that's almost 4 years now. In the beginning we weren't really friends. We both came from other schools and stayed a bit with the people we knew. We are not the busiest ones you can imagine and a little bit shy too.. But the people we knew were the same kind of people. Not the bitches from the school, but more silent and more serious (but not nerds!!). So the people we knew got to know each other and so we met too.
We still weren't friends but last year (so late!) when Laura completely let me fall, i finally decided i had to search for other friends while Laura was doing that too. And i found Eva :) I think we have the same ideas about a lot of things and we are always having fun. In breaks, i really don't remember, we got friends with Katja and Aranka and we still see them in breaks and Eva sees them in some lessons. They are more different than Eva and i are, but everything is going great :D I have found great friends and i know i can trust them better than others i had at school of whom i still don't know for sure if they wait to cycle home. That's a pity from our friendship.. Laura lived very near me, but Eva lives in another side of the city, like Aranka does. Katja lives 10 minutes cycling from me in Schiedam, so even more far away for the other two. But it doesn't matter so much... I feel like these friends really respect me when i, for example, like music they don't like. They let me talk about Sweden on and on and Eva even talks WITH me :)
Dancing
At dancing, zumba, i have Anne. She's a crazy girl and got crazy of Sweden too, all because of me.. We are laughing so much in that hour and because of her i'm always looking forward. I really like to see her and it's a pity she's in another school so we see each other only once a week. But that one time is great!!! And we have a crush on the same men... and Eva too!
Scouting
At scouting i met Bobby when we were really young. We were the only from our "girls from age 7 - 11" group to go to the "girls age 11 - 14" in that year. That's how we got friends, and we still are. I got her so far to go to the explorers in 2007 because she first wanted to stop, but she's still there and she loves it!! She's sure she wants to go to Sweden in 2011 and always hears my stories about England. In summer we go to Switzerland and we are really looking forward. It's going to be a great week :D
Bed
In my bed i have no boys haha.. I have a sheep and two mooses. And they all have a story. My sheep i have had since i was born. We have a picture with me and the sheep on it, where the sheep was bigger than my head haha. It's now more grey than white, but it's a kind of my history and my life so that's why i still have it. I will never throw it away. It has seen a lot of places, as much as i have seen haha. I have one big moose and one small moose. They are younger. The small one i bought in Sweden last year and it says I love Sweden. It's so cute!!!! And it makes me thinking about the great time i've had there :)
The big moose has been from my dead aunt. I don't know where she bought it, but it's very cute and i got it after she died, so it's one of the memories about my aunt and that's why i watch at it every night.
Outside school
Outside school i do things with Eva and Katja and Aranka and i think they are just my friends here too...
Free time
That sounds the same as "Outside school" but here i want to call other friends. The friends for whom i'm writing this blog in English and the only friends who will probably read this blog because the others don't know (yet) that i have it :D
The friends i have seen 1 or 2 times but who are one of the best i have..
Ida & Sofia.
I don't think i will have to tell them how i met them, but maybe for Ida because she has just told me that her memory is very bad.. Hahaha, if you want me to write it down in English, just tell me and i will do it for you :D
They are one of the reasons i have seen (a part of) Sweden. And therefore (even less of) Denmark. I really loved my time in Sweden and every day, every hour, every minute i want to go back. Now i have heard Sofia is in hospital too, i'm totally in shock. I feel so terrible that i can't be there and only sit here and can't do anything. Of course i can't make her and her mother better, but i feel terrible that i can't be there and make her a little bit happier.
That's what i hate so much... Everything is so nice and great and perfect, but we live 1400 kilometers away from each other. Calling is expensive, travelling is expensive, holidays are different and especially Ida's school gives a lot of homework. I don't like it because they really are my best friends too and i want to do the things that i do with my other friends with them!!! Go shopping in Rotterdam, having fun in lessons and breaks, talking about the things we have to learn at school and complain about it (although that is not the biggest problem) and so much much more!!
Our friendship is so special and one of the reasons is that terrible distance.. but also the way Ida and i met and how such a small meeting on internet can grow into such a huge friendship. The fact that we have to talk in English, which improved a lot on both sides i think, and that we always understand each other. How we are almost "normal" friends while we are living in such different countries with different cultures and with having such different lives. The way there's always something to talk about. And the feeling that it's true what they say and that it comes from both sides. Those are some of the lot of things that are so special about our friendship.
And then i haven't told about the special things of them!!!! That they always make me happy, that they are so funny, and that they are so like me while everything is so different...
I think it proves that different cultures and countries can result in the best of friends and that all war, hate, racism and integrationproblems aren't necessary at ALL!
So now i'm going to finish this blog, so Ida can read this long and long story. I want to tell that i really LOVE her and Sofia and that i'm lucky to have found them, and Ida knows how big the chance was it wouldn't be like this with that conversation in 2006..
Friends are always near, Marloes
So i think i'm going to write about one of the most important things in my life: friendship.
Friends are very important to me and that's why i'm writing this blog in English, so ALL my friends can understand it.. :D
I'm going to write about my best friends. In my life i have like.. 6 parts i think. School, dancing, scouting, free time, out of school and sleeping.
For every part i have my best friend or friends :D
School
At school my best friends are Eva, Katja and Aranka.
Eva has been in my class since i came at secondary school, so that's almost 4 years now. In the beginning we weren't really friends. We both came from other schools and stayed a bit with the people we knew. We are not the busiest ones you can imagine and a little bit shy too.. But the people we knew were the same kind of people. Not the bitches from the school, but more silent and more serious (but not nerds!!). So the people we knew got to know each other and so we met too.
We still weren't friends but last year (so late!) when Laura completely let me fall, i finally decided i had to search for other friends while Laura was doing that too. And i found Eva :) I think we have the same ideas about a lot of things and we are always having fun. In breaks, i really don't remember, we got friends with Katja and Aranka and we still see them in breaks and Eva sees them in some lessons. They are more different than Eva and i are, but everything is going great :D I have found great friends and i know i can trust them better than others i had at school of whom i still don't know for sure if they wait to cycle home. That's a pity from our friendship.. Laura lived very near me, but Eva lives in another side of the city, like Aranka does. Katja lives 10 minutes cycling from me in Schiedam, so even more far away for the other two. But it doesn't matter so much... I feel like these friends really respect me when i, for example, like music they don't like. They let me talk about Sweden on and on and Eva even talks WITH me :)
Dancing
At dancing, zumba, i have Anne. She's a crazy girl and got crazy of Sweden too, all because of me.. We are laughing so much in that hour and because of her i'm always looking forward. I really like to see her and it's a pity she's in another school so we see each other only once a week. But that one time is great!!! And we have a crush on the same men... and Eva too!
Scouting
At scouting i met Bobby when we were really young. We were the only from our "girls from age 7 - 11" group to go to the "girls age 11 - 14" in that year. That's how we got friends, and we still are. I got her so far to go to the explorers in 2007 because she first wanted to stop, but she's still there and she loves it!! She's sure she wants to go to Sweden in 2011 and always hears my stories about England. In summer we go to Switzerland and we are really looking forward. It's going to be a great week :D
Bed
In my bed i have no boys haha.. I have a sheep and two mooses. And they all have a story. My sheep i have had since i was born. We have a picture with me and the sheep on it, where the sheep was bigger than my head haha. It's now more grey than white, but it's a kind of my history and my life so that's why i still have it. I will never throw it away. It has seen a lot of places, as much as i have seen haha. I have one big moose and one small moose. They are younger. The small one i bought in Sweden last year and it says I love Sweden. It's so cute!!!! And it makes me thinking about the great time i've had there :)
The big moose has been from my dead aunt. I don't know where she bought it, but it's very cute and i got it after she died, so it's one of the memories about my aunt and that's why i watch at it every night.
Outside school
Outside school i do things with Eva and Katja and Aranka and i think they are just my friends here too...
Free time
That sounds the same as "Outside school" but here i want to call other friends. The friends for whom i'm writing this blog in English and the only friends who will probably read this blog because the others don't know (yet) that i have it :D
The friends i have seen 1 or 2 times but who are one of the best i have..
Ida & Sofia.
I don't think i will have to tell them how i met them, but maybe for Ida because she has just told me that her memory is very bad.. Hahaha, if you want me to write it down in English, just tell me and i will do it for you :D
They are one of the reasons i have seen (a part of) Sweden. And therefore (even less of) Denmark. I really loved my time in Sweden and every day, every hour, every minute i want to go back. Now i have heard Sofia is in hospital too, i'm totally in shock. I feel so terrible that i can't be there and only sit here and can't do anything. Of course i can't make her and her mother better, but i feel terrible that i can't be there and make her a little bit happier.
That's what i hate so much... Everything is so nice and great and perfect, but we live 1400 kilometers away from each other. Calling is expensive, travelling is expensive, holidays are different and especially Ida's school gives a lot of homework. I don't like it because they really are my best friends too and i want to do the things that i do with my other friends with them!!! Go shopping in Rotterdam, having fun in lessons and breaks, talking about the things we have to learn at school and complain about it (although that is not the biggest problem) and so much much more!!
Our friendship is so special and one of the reasons is that terrible distance.. but also the way Ida and i met and how such a small meeting on internet can grow into such a huge friendship. The fact that we have to talk in English, which improved a lot on both sides i think, and that we always understand each other. How we are almost "normal" friends while we are living in such different countries with different cultures and with having such different lives. The way there's always something to talk about. And the feeling that it's true what they say and that it comes from both sides. Those are some of the lot of things that are so special about our friendship.
And then i haven't told about the special things of them!!!! That they always make me happy, that they are so funny, and that they are so like me while everything is so different...
I think it proves that different cultures and countries can result in the best of friends and that all war, hate, racism and integrationproblems aren't necessary at ALL!
So now i'm going to finish this blog, so Ida can read this long and long story. I want to tell that i really LOVE her and Sofia and that i'm lucky to have found them, and Ida knows how big the chance was it wouldn't be like this with that conversation in 2006..
Friends are always near, Marloes
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